"Dogs, Lions, and Saints: Wildness and Domesticity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages."

Author of Epic Lives and Monasticism in the Middle Ages, 800-1050 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

MEDIEVAL ENVIRONMENTS‌The Medieval Studies Center, with the co-sponsorship of the Institute for Environmental Sustainability, presents the 2018-19 lecture series: Medieval Environments. To understand the present, we must understand the past. Over the course of the year, seven internationally-known speakers from various disciplines will present their research on aspects of medieval environmental issues and how they illuminate the present. Unless noted, all talks will be on Mondays at 4:00 pm in IES 123-124. (Photo credit: BL Royal 16 E VI f. 4v, illustration of the Roman d’Alexandre)

Climate Variability in Medieval Times:seven decades of progressMalcolm Hughes, Regents' Professor of Dendrochronology, University of ArizonaAuthor and co-author of over a hundred articles, including "Spatial and temporal characteristics of climate in medieval times revisited." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2011) and "Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the 'Little Ice Age' and 'Medieval Climate Anomaly'"; Science. 326 (2009)

03/25/19

God's Stewards: Conservation in Later Medieval EnglandRosemary O'Neill, Kenyon College, OhioWorking on a book linking medieval estates management, accounting practices, and the ethics of land stewardship

04/08/19

Landscape and Environment in Anatolia: Considering the Context of Çadir HöyükMarica Cassis, University of CalgaryDirector of Byzantine Project, Çadir Höyük archaeologial site in Turkey. Co-author of "The Climate and Environment of Byzantine Anatolia: Integrating Science, History, and Archaeology," Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2014)

FALL 2018 SERIES

10/01/18

A New Story of the Black DeathMonica Green, Arizona State UniversityEditor of Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death (Amsterdam: Arc Medieval Press, 2015) and author of other books and articles on the history of disease and medicine

FRIDAY11/2/18IES 111

Roofing Rome: The Origins of Forest Conversation in Medieval ItalyPaolo Squatriti, University of MichiganAuthor of Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy: Chestnuts, Economy, and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2013); editor of Natures Past. The Environment and Human History (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2007).

11/12/18

Rivers and Riverscapes in the Early Middle AgesEllen Arnold, Ohio Wesleyan UniversityAuthor of Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes, (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

ADDITIONAL LECTURES

09/24/184:00 pmIES 123-124

Into the Deepest Dark: Hell in Medieval TraditionScott Bruce, Fordham Universityauthor of The Medieval Book of Hell